I don't think anyone in her family besides her parents know Hermione is a witch. Mr & Mrs Granger probably know that Hermione is smart enough to hide the fact that she is a witch and goes to away to Hogwarts every year from her family. They probably tell relatives that Hermione goes to some genius boarding school to cover up her long absences when she's at Hogwarts.

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That could be true. If he (Dagworth-Granger) is actually a remote relative, then Hermione may not be the first Granger to have magical abilities. Maybe Jo was foreshadowing another important wizard in the Granger tree. Interesting

I always found it weird the lack of attention that Hermoine gave this potential family member. She had nevr heard of him, and din't bother to research later.

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The real question: What do Hermione's parents say when asked about her school

Isn't this why Salazar Slytherin was so worried about muggle borns entering the school? Because their families would leak the news and instigated a witch hunt?

Anyway, if you got a letter inviting you to a school that your parents have never heard of, wouldn't they ask to see the letter. Wouldn't their parents want a little information first? Dumbledore seems the type of person to give muggle parents information about the school that their children are attending.

Isn't there a part somewhere where Petunia talks about Lily performing magic at home? It just makes sense that muggle relatives know about magic.

What really annoys me is quotes like this about theories, higligting a possible smakk connection to star wars. No one has a problem with the canon that makes a large connection to star wars (When a wizard turns to the dark side there is no comming back stuff for example), so what's wrong with thories?

Please don't jump to conclusions about my statement. I never said there was anything wrong with the theory of Hermione being Harry's sister, but I innocently compared it to the whole Luke & Leia brother/sister thing because you can't deny that there is a similarity between that theory and the Starwars canon.
What is wrong with a similar plotline? Nothing, but I very much doubt that JK would write something so far-fetched without her usual style of dropping hints (which, in my opinion she hasn't about this particular theory, no matter what essays I have read on the matter). I also don't think she would repeat something which has quite evidently been done to death. Her books are unique, and I think that plays a big part in making them so popular.
No matter which way I look at it, I just don't think that Hermione is Harry's sister, any more than Snape is.

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Thankyou for the link! it is most interesting. far-fetched, even a little crazy, but interesting.

Hinoema - I sincerely apoligize if you took my reply to your theory as an insult. In the life of me it was never intended as one!

This leads to another question: what about wizards/witches marrying muggles? How does that happen and what happens when they are told? I can see a Bewitched situation where only the husband knows and hilarity ensues. Seriously, if you aren't allowed to perform magic in the presense of a muggle, how do we wind up with a generation of half bloods? Marrying into the muggle worlds seems to go against the laws of the magic world.

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This leads to another question: what about wizards/witches marrying muggles? How does that happen and what happens when they are told? I can see a Bewitched situation where only the husband knows and hilarity ensues. Seriously, if you aren't allowed to perform magic in the presense of a muggle, how do we wind up with a generation of half bloods? Marrying into the muggle worlds seems to go against the laws of the magic world.

Like someone said, the magical world would have died out had it not been for breeding with muggles so I imagine there was a directive to get along with muggles or let magic die out. I imagine at some point of time they allowed muggle intermingling before laws were so stringently enforced. However nowadays I don't know. There seems a high unlikelyhood of Wizards meeting with muggles (as in romantically bumping into each other such as a club, or the grocery store), unless they are half bloods anyways and know of the muggle world.

I would imagine that considering the ineptitude of ministry, they really don't enforce magic in front of muggles when coming to love. A regular memory charm could erase an entire relationship gone bad, kinda like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

But what I find more interesting is that perhaps there isn't really any "muggle born " wizards and witches to say. I mean if magic has been around as long as the HP universe dictates, one could imagine that through mating with muggles in the past, that they could have passed on slight/residual magic powers/talent to future generations. For all we know, the Grangers' lineage could have had a wizard, witch or even squib (with a potential of genetic magical talent) be part of the family in their ancestry.

When you get down to it, we know more about the muggle hotel owner from book one that tells the dursleys they have 100 Hogwarts letters. I can't see this not being a consious atempt to hide something about the Grangers.

JKR had said that she had wanted Harry to get to know the Weasleys because they're much more interesting than muggle dentists. She's keeping them in the background because they're very normal and boring as opposed to a family of wizards through which we can get new information and get familar with the magical world.

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I browsed very quicky through this thread, and didn't spot anything like this, so apologies if this has already been brought up.

In Half-Blood Prince, Luna said something about the Aurors being part of the Rotfang (sp?) conspiracy which aims to bring down the Ministry of Magic through a combination of Dark magic and gum disease.

Gum disease... and Hermione's parents are dentists!

Do you think it's significant? Or does it hint at a bigger role for Hermione's parents in the 7th book?

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It all depends on how close the family is, if most of Hermione's other family live in australia then chances are, they won't know but if she has an aunt that lives with her or whatever then her parents will have told her.

I think its just her parents that know, i don't think they would or even be allowed to tell anyone els family or not.

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